Veniamin Kostitsin
Veniamin Vladimirovich Kostitsin (Russian: Вениамин Владимирович Костицын Venjamin V. Kosticyn; born 28 January 1949 in Krasnoyarsk), is a Russian-born artist based in Austria. His oeuvre primarily incorporates painting, graphics, and mixed media.
Childhood
Veniamin Kostitsin was born in Krasnoyarsk, Russia and grew up in Norilsk after his parents relocated. In 1971, he moved back to Moscow, where he married Svetlana Mikhailovna Teterina, an art historian, in 1973. Their son, Veniamin Kostitsin-Teterin, is a photographer.
Education
Kostitsin has enjoyed artistic training since early adolescence. Between 1964 and 1968, Veniamin Kostitsin studied at the 'Grekov' Art College in Odessa. From 1972 to 1978, he completed his education at the WGIK (All-Union State Institute for Cinematography) in Moscow, as an art director.
Works
Kostitsin first gained significant critical acclaim in 1975 for his series 'Old Moscow.' In 1977, his series 'The Russian North' was honored by the Russian Academy of Fine Arts in Leningrad. Between 1975 and 1989, Kostitsin illustrated over 20 books for children, some of which were reprinted in English and German. Until 1989, Veniamin Kostitsin exhibited throughout the Soviet Union, with his work often acquired by various state collections.
Svetlana Teterina, using her position as a curator at the Polenovo estate museum of Vasily Polenov, introduced her fiancé, Kostitsin, to the art elite and children of local nobility in Tarusa, Meshchovsk, and Polenovo. Tarusa, a family estate of the Teterin family, has since played a significant role in Veniamin Kostitsin's artistic life. The area's landscape was frequently depicted in Veniamin's illustrations for publications of 19th-century Russian literature and prominently featured in his paintings between 1973 and 1987. The artist was also significantly influenced by the Peredvizhniki during this period.
Veniamin Kostitsin has resided and worked in Baden bei Wien, Austria, since 1990.
Books / illustrations (incomplete)
- "Yellow Beak" by Aleksej Tolstoy, Malysh publishing house, 1987. ISBN 5-05-002493-5 Search this book on
. - "Deti Podzemelja" by Vladimir Korolenko
- "Stihotvorenija" by Nikolaj Nekrasov
- "Dedushka Mazaj i Zajcy" by Nikolaj Nekrasov, Sovetskaya Rossiya publishing house, 1987
- "Novels" by August Strindberg
- "Hrabryj Ruchej" by Viktor Banykin, Sovetskaya Rossiya publishing house, 1988. ISBN 5-268-00665-7 Search this book on .
- "Zimnyaya Doroga: Poems by Russian authors", Malysh publishing house, 1986.
- "Belyj Pudel" by Aleksandr Kuprin, Sovetskaya Rossiya publishing house, 1988. ISBN 5-268-00669-X Search this book on .
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